moon meteor

Patrick Leverone of the Maine Mineral & Gem Museum holding a piece of the moon that landed on earth as a meteorite in northern Africa. (MATT MALONEY PHOTO)

By Matt Maloney, Special to The Conway Daily Sun

On Sunday, March 7, 2021, I arrived on the cold and blustery summit of Mount Blue in Weld, Maine. I climbed the rime ice-covered steps of the summit observation platform just in time to watch the view before sundown. The cold wind cut through me, but I was enthralled by the red blush of snow and ice at sunset, with a view that stretched from Mount Katahdin all the way west to Mount Washington. The air was of the utmost clarity on that cold winter day.

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